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It's About Data — 98 episodes

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1

AI Data Governance (with Mike Ferguson)

2

Preparing Data for AI (with Mike Ferguson)

3

Data Centric AI (with Dave McComb)

4

Agents Eating The Semantic Layer (with Paul Blankley, CTO of Zenlytic)

5

Context Engineering and Data Products (Justin Borgman, CEO of Starburst)

6

The State of Enterprise AI (Rob Strechay—VentureBeat)

7

The Year of The Graph

8

Nvidia/Hugging Face

9

AWS Acquires DuckLabs

10

Data Security at Source (with Vipin Samar)

11

Business Intelligence with LLMs (guest Ryan Dolley)

12

The Rapidly Evolving Job Market (with Stephen Messer)

13

How Agents Remake the Internet (with Stephen Messer)

14

Humanizing AI Strategy (Tiankai Feng, Thoughtworks)

15

Managing the Meaning of Data (Dipti Borkar—Microsoft)

16

Harnessing Unstructured Data Part II (with Kevin Petrie and Merv Adrian)

17

Harnessing Unstructured Data for AI Innovation (with Kevin Petrie and Merv Adrian)

18

Open Data and the Data Problems That Matter Now (Dipti Borkar—Microsoft)

19

Moving Up the Data Stack (with Andy Pernsteiner—VAST Data)

20

Databricks Summit 2026

21

What's New in Apache Spark?

22

Data Products That Matter (Florian Douetteau—Dataiku)

23

Database Development in The Era of Vibe Coding (with Nikita Shamgunov—Databricks)

24

Snowflake Summit 26 (with Juan Sequeda)

25

Spanner, Hybrid Cloud, and Data Sovereignty (Sailesh Krishnamurthy, Google)

26

The Origins of Databricks Lakebase (with Nikita Shamgunov)

27

Your Data Needs Metadata (with Suresh Srinivas)

28

Collapsing the Modern Data Stack for AI (with Amit Sharma)

29

Data Makes the World Go Round (with Fern Halper)

30

Agents Are the New Face of SAP (Sapphire 2026)

31

Data Governance in the Wild (with Winfried Etzel)

32

IBM Think 2026

33

Database Autonomy (Miran Badzak, @IBM)

34

The Agentic AI Foundation (Interview with Angie Jones and Jim Zemlin)

35

GCP Next 2026 (with Sanjeev Mohan)

36

The Human Layer of Data (Guests Jenna Jordan and Thais Cooke)

37

Combining Two Approaches to AI (with Yitzhak Kesselman, Microsoft)

38

MCP Dev Summit Recap with Andrew Brust

39

Data Modeling, GTA 6 and the State of Data Engineering (with Joe Reis)

40

Agentic Coding in the Trenches (with Lena Hall)

41

AI, Library Science and Reading (with Jessica Talisman)

42

AI, Human Connection, Guard Rails and Ethics (with Paige Roberts)

43

Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies and Context (with Jessica Talisman)

44

AI-ready Data

45

The Pedantic Layer vs. The Semantic Layer

46

AI Powered Autonomous Databases

47

The Past, Present and Future of Apache Iceberg

48

AI Agents: Hype vs. Reality

49

Ontologies, Semantics, AI and the Microsoft Data Ecosystem

50

AI and the Publishing Business

51

Systems of Action

52

Data, AI, and Enterprise Software with Bruno Aziza

53

The Post Database Era (with Patrick McFadin)

54

AI and the Universal Semantic Layer, with Dave Mariani

55

Data Day Texas 2026

56

Graphs, Graphs Everywhere—with Sudhir Hasbe

57

Data vs. Developers: Can We Be Friends?

58

Data vs. App Development: Clash of the Analysts

59

Data and AI in 2026

60

Architectural Intelligence, with Dinesh Chandrasekhar

61

Generative AI Design Patterns, with Lak Lakshmanan

62

Data Products, Agents and OSI

63

IBM Expands Its Empire

64

Closing the Year of the Agent (re:invent 2025)

65

Bringing Graphs to the Lakehouse

66

Context Is Everything (with Francois Lopitaux)

67

Semantic Spheres of Influence and Tech in China

68

The Confluence of AI and Analytics (with John Santaferraro)

69

Oracle AI World 2025

70

Overhauling Search with AlloyDB AI (Guest: Amit Ganesh)

71

Agents, Context, Customers and Vectorization (Guest: Martin Willcox)

72

The Perpetual AI Capital Machine (Guest: Sanjeev Mohan)

73

The Universal Semantic Layer

74

The State of Graph Databases

75

The Database Migration Bottleneck

76

Oracle's Massive Rally

77

InterSystems

78

Python in Excel (guest: Dave Langer)

79

Do We Still Need Data Teams? (with Ollie Hughes)

80

Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents (with Jessica Talisman)

81

AI, #ai Everywhere (#aws Summit 2025 NYC)

82

4.2 Trillion

83

Oracle Database@AWS

84

Major Themes of 2025 H1

85

Data News Recap — H1 2025

86

Data + AI Summit 2025

87

DuckLake (with Ryan Boyd)

88

Snowflake Summit 2025

89

Apache Iceberg and Composable Data Stacks (with Alex Merced)

90

Salesforce/Informatica

91

SAP Sapphire

92

Episode 7 — Model Context Protocol

93

Episode 6 — IBM Think 2025

94

Episode 5 — Small Models Are the Key to AI Success

95

Episode 4 — Oracle's Multicloud Partnership Strategy

96

Episode 3 — GCP Next 2025

97

Episode 2 — CoreWeave

98

Episode 1 — SAP/Databricks